• Organize cost estimate data by system work breakdown structure and by product-oriented work breakdown structure;
• Generate estimates at any level of detail using item-by-item estimates, standard work packages, or parametric functions that utilize your own shipyard production rates;
• Develop bids quickly and easily for multiple ship programs that spread across multiple years of construction schedules and rate changes.

What usually allows a shipyard to develop rational cost estimates is its ability to catalog costs by some work breakdown structure. The Work Breakdown Structure is traditionally a list of common ship systems such as hull, equipment, piping, electrical, paint and furnishings, augmented by ancillary shipyard services needed to support production. A well-known Work Breakdown Structure is the U.S. Navy's Ship Work Breakdown Structure. Other Work Breakdown Structure schemes have been developed over the years by different shipyards, some more detailed than others. Regardless of the specific Work Breakdown Structure, each provides a format by which a shipyard can collect and organize costs that can be used to estimate pricing for new work.

ESTI-MATE has been designed to satisfy the majority of the requirements for developing both new construction and ship repair contract estimates. ESTI-MATE supports both a ship systems-oriented work breakdown structure, as well as a complementing, but optional, product work breakdown structure. While the system allows costing data to be catalogued by traditional Work Breakdown Structure categories, ESTI-MATE will also support more basic, rough-order estimating.

The system will allow any number of different contract proposals to be developed on the database. Also, different estimates can be based upon different methods used, and estimates of alternate proposal configurations and options can be generated.

ESTI-MATE provides a variety of estimating functions designed to improve the quality of the estimating process and to reduce the time needed to generate the bid estimates. Some of these functions include:

• Input of the bid estimate summary work breakdown structure including options for a product work breakdown structure that simulates an effective build strategy;
• Input of specific cost estimate items, such as labor, material, subcontractor & travel;
• Automated generation of cost estimate items from parametric formulas;
• Automated generation of cost estimate items from libraries of pre-packaged estimates;
• Automated generation of cost estimate items copied from other projects on the database;
• Automated calculations of labor and indirect costs, including overhead, G&A and profit from user-defined rate tables;
• Automated calculations of purchased sales taxes against selected purchased costs;
• Global modifications to selected ranges of cost estimate data;
• Estimate reports summarizing costs by Contract, Work Breakdown Structure, Product Work Breakdown Structure, and by work center.

Direct labor costs are computed automatically by the system from input labor man-hours and labor rate tables defined by the user. These tables can be time-phased for multi-year contract proposals.

Indirect costs also are computed automatically by the system from the user-defined rate tables. These include:

• Overhead and general administrative cost rates also identifiable by work or cost center;
• Material burden and handling rates;
• Sales tax and duty rates;
• Labor and material profit rates that can be identifiable to individual work centers.

The FlagShip ESTI-MATE software brings new ease and flexibility to shipyard estimators. You get the power and versatility to successfully develop more accurate and complete contract cost and pricing proposals to reduce risk and maximize your opportunities for winning successful contracts.

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